Hugh Lippe photographed
Tyler Riggs for
Contributing Editor on Friday October 2nd at 5:30pm.
The entire series can be seen at
contributingeditor.blogspot.comI love how strong Tyler looks in the series - however the light on his torso highlights his rib cage, illuminating his vulnerability, like Achilles.
In
Greek mythology, Achilles was a
Greek hero of the
Trojan War, the
central character and the greatest warrior of
Homer's
Iliad.
Achilles also has the attributes of being the most handsome of the heroes assembled against
Troy.
Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his
heel. Since he died due to a poisoned arrow shot into his heel, the "
Achilles' heel" has come to mean a person's principal weakness.
According to a fragment of an Achilleis— the
Achilleid, written by
Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles was born Thetis tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river
Styx. However, he was left vulnerable at the part of the body she held him by, his heel. (See
Achilles heel,
Achilles' tendon.)
